He added that some concern had been expressed about whether that would be too large a reduction for Article 5 Parties, and therefore welcomed the proposed decision. Mr. Lambert Kuijpers, Co-Chair of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, also welcomed the draft decision and suggested some modifications to the text. It was difficult to know at that stage whether it would be possible to complete the study by the twenty-fourth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group, because the Fifteenth Meeting of the Parties was yet to complete its work, including deciding on all the issues that it would request the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to undertake.
Después de examinar en detalle los datos presentados por las Partes y las explicaciones del exceso de consumo o producción, el Comité había llegado a la conclusión de que 16 Partes que operan al amparo del artículo 5 y dos Partes que no operan al amparo del artículo 5, enumeradas en cinco proyectos de decisión, no habían proporcionado una explicación satisfactoria de los datos sobre consumo correspondientes a 2001 y/o 2002.